The Betrothed (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
I was here from the moment of the Beginning, and here I am still. And I shall remain here until ...
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
We were water babes, born in the arms of a sparkling brook that patiently took us into its heart. At ...
I was saddened just to hear the bitter rancour in his voice, a sour hostility aloof of commonsense, and ranks ...
You could see the signs which said that possums came at night and fed upon this tree, they left their ...
Ronald Hi Khong Wong is gone, sadly he deceased the commencement of this week. It wasn't unexpected. He never contradicted ...
The Ekka institution bares us all, though call it Exhibition, Royal Queensland Show, it's that time of year when you ...
WILLIE WASTLE dwalt on Tweed, The spot they ca'd it Linkumdoddie; Willie was a wabster gude, Could stown a clue ...
FOR lords or kings I dinna mourn, E'en let them die-for that they're born: But oh! prodigious to reflec'! A ...
IF ye gae up to yon hill-tap, Ye'll there see bonie Peggy; She kens her father is a laird, And ...
WHEN biting Boreas, fell and dour, Sharp shivers thro' the leafless bow'r; When Phoebus gies a short-liv'd glow'r, Far south ...
WHEN Guilford good our pilot stood An' did our hellim thraw, man, Ae night, at tea, began a plea, Within ...
With white frost gone And all green dreams not worth much, After a lean day's work Time comes round for ...
It chanced out back at the Christmas time, When the wheat was ripe and tall, A stranger rode to the ...
In the dour ages Of drafty cells and draftier castles, Of dragons breathing without the frame of fables, Saint and ...
My father and mother, my brother and sister and I, with uncle Pat, our dour best-loved uncle, had set out ...
There's a grayness over the harbor like fear on the face of a woman, The sob of the waves has ...
We told her that her far off shore was bleak and dour to view, And that her sky was dull ...
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic Oath begins, but before she might enjoy such balm, the docs had to harm ...
Yours is the shame and sorrow, But the disgrace is mine; Your love was dark and thorough, Mine was the ...
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